Improvement in bridles for harness



waited Ctatea GEORGE HORTER, N EW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA, ASSIGNOR TO HORTER,

PETERSEN & FENNER, OE SAME PLAGE.

Leners Pawn: No. 105,081, dma July 5, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN BRIDLES P OR HARNEASS.

The Schedule refenfed to in these Letters Patent andmaking part of the same To all wllomit may concern Be it known that I, GEORGE HoRTnR, of New Orleans, in the parish of Orleans and State of Louisiana, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Plantation-Bridles; and I do hereby declare that the followingis a vfull, clear, andexaet description ol' the same, reference being had to the 'accompanyi-ng drawing, forming a part of this specification, in which the drawing is a side elevation.

This invention consists in making the headstail, check-rein, or any other part of a common plantationbridle which can he so made, of webbing, instead of leather, for the purpose of combining durability and cheapness.

v T he invention also consists in making the blinder of a common plantation-bridle with a trunk-board, pasteboard, or felt foundation, and 'a covering of enameled cloth, or leather, or splits.

In the drawing is shown a bridle, having the cheekpiece A, check-rein B, crown-piece C, front piece D, nose-band E, and throat-latch F, all formed of wehbing, or other cheap material other than leather.

The blinder is constructed withv a foundation of trunk-board, pasteboard, split, or felt, and a covering of enameled muslin, drill, duck, leather, hog-skin, or splits, bound on the edges with the' same or equivalent material.

Before the late war, a patent Afor this invention would hardly have. been asked, as not only was leather less costly by half than it is now, but therewas no particular demand for a very cheap article, Vowing to 4the fact that the race of plantersin the South was mainly of the large and wealthy order. Of late years, however, a great many small planters have sprungup from among the poor whites and freedmen, whose means are extremely limited; and to men of' this class I propose to furnisha strong and durable bridle at about half the cost of' the cheapest leather one.

I am aware that headstalls for halters have been made of webbing, and I therefore'wish it to be nnder stood that I lay no .claim to such invention; but

Having fully described my invention,

What I do claim as ne\v,and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A blinder-bridle having the cheek-pieces A,

\ brow-bandD, nose-strap E,and throat-latch F made of webbing, and all constructed as and for the purpose specified.

2. In a plantation-bridle, a blinder made with a foundation of trunk-board, pasteboard,"split, or felt, and a covering of enameled cloth or leather, snbstan# tially as described. .f

GEORGE HORTER.

Witnesses:

P. GoNNoRs, JNO. C. HORTER. 

